A mixture of frailties

'm reading Dr. Peter Ubel's new book, Free Market Madness: Why human nature is at odds with economics and why it matters. It is excellent. It does for behavioral economics what Malcolm Gladwell's book Blink did for other aspects of social psychology. Like any good book, my reading is generating a number of responses. The first are thoughts on the rationale vs. the irrational in psychological science.

Dr. Ubel, Peter if I may, is a good writer and ... Full Story »